Dispensing and forming apparatus.



J. E. EEEPEE. DISPENSING AND- FORMING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1911.

Patented June 4,1912.

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J. P. LEEPER.

-' DISPENSING AND FORMING APBARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1911.

Patented June 4, 1912.

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JAMES FRANCIS LEEPER, OF BERKELEY SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA.

DISPENSING AND FORMING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1912.

Application filed August 26, 1911. Serial No. 646,266.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns F. Lnnrnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berkeley Springs, in the county of Morgan and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dispensing and Forming Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to dispensing and formingapparatus for use by druggists or like merchants, the objects of the invention being to provide apparatus of this character for constructing or forming indicators for poison bottles and the provision of means whereby a metal tape may be removed, formed and cut to the required size so as to efiectively embrace the neck of a bottle.

In the drawings,-forming a portion ofthis specification and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views :-Figure 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a front view thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the indicating tape. Fig. 4 is a similar View of the tape after the same has been formed with the indicating barbs. Fig. 5 is a side view of a bottle having arranged thereonv one of the poison indicators. Fig. 6 is a side view of the apparatus. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7-7 of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a section on an enlarged scale through the forming rolls showing the manner of forming the roughened surface on the tape.

The apparatus preferably includes a casing 1 having a main body portion 2 on which is a fixed head 3 and a removable head 4. A spindle extends horizontally from the fixed head of the casing and is removably mounted in the passage 5 in the removable head 4. A fastening nut 6 is removably engaged with the threaded end of the spindle and is employed for the purpose of holding the removable head fixedly associated with the casing. The casing is mounted on a suitable base 7, whereby the structure may be supported upon the show case, counter or the like. The casing is provided with a discharge opening 8 and extending across the opening are parallel guide rollers 9. v

The indicating tape 10 is preferably constructed of light metal, being arranged in coil form in the casing 1 and revolubly mounted upon the spindle of the casing. This tape is provided with a longitudinal series of tongues 11 which are separated from each other by intervening slots 12. The tape may have printed or otherwise formed thereon means such as the word Poison, as shown at 13, to indicate to the user of the bottle that the same contains a dangerous drug. One terminal of the tape is extendedthrough the guide rollers 9 and extends in the direction of the table 14. This table is supported by the-base 7 of the casing and mounted thereon are the forming rolls15 and 16. These rolls are provided withintermeshing gear wheels 17 and the roll 15 is provided with an operating crank 18 whereby the rolls may be revolved in opposite directions for a purpose to be hereinafter described.

The roll 15 is provided with radial spur stamping or cutting elements 19 which are preferably in form of teeth which are adapted to bear against the tape and to cut the same and to force portions of the tape into the cavities 20 in the roll 15. As

hereinbefore described the tape is extended through the guide rollers 9 in the exit opening 8 of the casing and from there the tap is extended through the companion rolls l5 and 16 of the spur forming apparatus so that when the crank 18 of the roll 15 is revolved manually or otherwise the tape will be fed through the rollers 9 and the rolls 15 and 16 to be operated upon by the latter so as to form in the tape the parallel rows of barbs 21. The table 14 is provided with a graduated gage 22 and at the inner end of the gage the table is provided with a bed member 23 and a movable severing knife 24. The knife 24 is provided with a handhold 25 and the bed member 23 is provided with a handhold 26, whereby pressure when brought to bear against the handhold will effectively cause the knife 24 to move in the direction of the bed member 23 to cut the required length of tape from the roll after it is formed with the barbs. My object in forming the barbs as the tape is discharged from the casing is to facilitate the unreeling of the tape, it being obvious that should the barbs be formed directly on the tape before it is placed in the casing the adjacent convolutions of the tape, incident to the provision of such barbs, would naturally become caught against each other which would thereby prevent a successful operation of the apparatus.

In use, a strip of material as taken from the apparatus is wrapped around the neck of the bottle as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. One of the tongues 11 at one terminal of the band shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings is extended into one of the slots 12 at or adjacent to the opposite ter minal of the 'band. The said tongue is then bent upon itself so as to securely hold the band to the bottle. The barbs 21 will extend outwardly so as to be disposed in positions where they would naturally en-.

' prising a table having a graduated portion,

a fixed cutter at one end of the table, a movable cutter disposed above the fixed cutter and provided with a handle, a hand hold supported by the table and mounted beneath the handle of the second cutter, and a pair of dies cooperatively associated behind the cutters and operating to feed the formed material along the graduated portion of the table. I

2, Apparatus of the class described comprising a graduated table, an apertured portion formed on the table at one end thereof, the lower wall of the aperture in said portion being beveled to form a cutting knife, a movable cutter mounted on said portion, and a pair of dies supported by the table behind the aperture and adapted to feed'the formed material through the aperture and across the graduated portion of the said table.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 7

JAMES FRANCIS LEEPER.

lVitnesses:

Mrs; J.- F. LEEPER, Mrs. B. F. FOSTER.

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